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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: jvromans@squirrel.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:52:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1CIoz6-00032t-Qg@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtxretz0.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Fri, 15 Oct 2004 21:06:59 +0300)

    {} might be a good replacement for ? since AFAIU its planned use
    doesn't depend on surrounding whitespace, but the problem is still
    unsolved for *.

We don't have a problem to solve for *.  We don't need
to do anything besides switch from ? to {}.

      Currently the marked file names are substituted for
    the * only if * is surrounded by whitespace.  But what if someone
    wants to use the names of all marked files with * not surrounded
    by whitespace, e.g.

    ! some_external_program --files='*'

If you find such a situation, just put in whitespace:

    ! some_external_program --files=' * '

I don't see how there could ever be a reason you
would need to do this with no whitespace.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-16 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-21 18:30 ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Richard Stallman
2004-09-21 19:48 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2004-09-22  1:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-22  2:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-03  1:19   ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-03  1:44     ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-04 15:18       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 15:41         ` David Kastrup
2004-10-04 15:50           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-04 17:27         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-04  2:43     ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-05 18:04       ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 23:03         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-07 16:45           ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12 15:12 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-13  3:01   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13  8:40     ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14  0:43     ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14  8:26       ` Johan Vromans
2004-10-14  9:45         ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14  9:56           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-14 16:37             ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15 10:08             ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15 18:06               ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-16 13:52                 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2004-10-14 23:30         ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15  4:13           ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15  8:12           ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14  8:56       ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14  9:45         ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-14 23:48         ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15  8:15           ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 14:42   ` Richard Stallman

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